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The European Youth Forum hosted 2017 2nd Council of Members (YFJ COMEM) from the 23rd -25th of November in Cascais, Portugal. The COMEM is one of two statutory meetings that take place annually, gathering Non-Governmental Youth Organisations and National Youth Councils from across Europe and beyond. Youth Environment Europe was represented by Niall Barrett, YEE`s External Relations Officer and Board Member.

Cascais is the European Youth Capital for 2018, and the official opening ceremony took place on the first evening of the conference. During this event, delegates explored the potential locations for the Youth Capital 2020, and also witnessed a fantastic choral performance from Cascais`s local Youth Choir. The city of Amiens, France was the lucky winners of the 2020 Youth Capital.

During the first week-end of February, YEE office was up and running! We were working hard for our new project “Active youth – better environment!”, aimed at fostering youth participation on environmental issues.

This project will include two training courses – “Youth exploring participation”, aimed to develop some theoretical tools and knowledge on youth participation and how to foster it in youth organisations, and “Youth for environmental future”, that will explore the topic of youth participation in environmental decision-making.

This year we are closing YEE’s favourite campaign “The Right To Be(e)” and we would like to celebrate with you the results of these 5 years of hard work for improving the bell-being of bees!

We would like to thank warmly the participants from all around Europe, who took on their time and energy to act in favour of bees. We thank the 33 groups and organisations who took part in the project, as well as our 470 bee lovers who followed the campaign.

Winter is definitely here, but YEE does not sleep! We have many things to share at the end of the year: successful projects, the results of the hard work from the recent Board meeting and news from our member organisations who have been very productive. We are also saying goodbye to Roxana, our Networking coordinator, and we want to thank her for contributing so much for YEE. We wish her good luck in all her future adventures! Last but not least, this year we are closing The Right to Be(e) campaign and we want to celebrate all its achievements with you. We wish you happy holidays and an active new year!